Improvement in postal-card cases



C. H. TOWNSEND, T. E. HUGHES, & A. A. KEITH.

, Postal-Gard Gases. No, 144,423, PatentedNqv-H,l873.

wm'ted POSTAL AM FbQm-L/TIMEMF/l/C 60. M )f/UJBORNE'S PROCESS) UNITED STATES PAT NT; OFFICE.

CHARLES H. TOWNSEND, TWIFORD E. HUGHES, AND ALBERT A. KEITH, OF

MlNNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT lN POSTAL-CARD CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent Nol44,4.23, dated November 11, 1873 application filed July 1, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, CHARLES H. TOWN- sEND, TWIFORD E. HUGHES, and ALBERT A. KEITH, all residents of the city of Minneapolis, county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented a certain new and useful Postal-Gard Case, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of our invention consists in the arrangement and construction of apocket-case that will contain one or more United States postal cards in such shape that they may be conveniently written upon and kept free from dirt, which will be generally explained in the ensuing description and specifically pointed out in the claim.

Figure lis an end view; Fig. 2, an open-side view, and Fig. 3 a plan view.

The same lettersof reference are employed in the various figures in the designation of the cards therein. A thin piece of metal plate,

F, the size of the card, is pressed upward by m eans of the elliptical springs E E. The springs acting on the under surface of the plate F, and being fastened to the bottom of the box, they keep the metal plate F firmly pressed against the under side of the cards,holdingthem firmly in place, that they may be conveniently written upon.

A box so constructed may be covered with any suitable material, and can have an attached lapel to protect the contents from contact with any foreign substance, asshown by the letters a B. Said lapel may be. so constructed th t money, valuable papers, or a memorandunrslate may be carried therein.

The letters O O show two loops, in which a pencil or pen may be inserted.

Having thus described our invention, we

Witnesses:

J OHN D. BURR, NELSON O. PECLERSEN. 

